Seine: issue 146

Microsoft list and will henceforth limit itself to only sending URLs has announced that it will no longer submit reports about holes in its security systems to the BugTraq to those pages of its server where these descriptions are published. in no uncertain terms The BugTraq moderator is made clear that the publication of these bug reports on the sheets will be considered by Microsoft as a violation of the corporation's copyright . Do they really think that a user who comes to a Microsoft server to describe another hole in MSIE will want to buy some product from them?

A number of musicians and recording studios sued have Universal Music Group for the unauthorized online distribution of digitized music recordings, the copyright of which belongs to the plaintiffs. Plaintiffs include Elvis Presley Music and MPL Communications , and songs include Peggy Sue and Love Me Tender ; In general, there are hundreds of counterfeit songs. The lawsuit looks especially impressive after the successful conclusion of the litigation with MP3.com for Universal Music . The feeling that all these adherents of copyright themselves have long ago become completely entangled in their own aspirations and from all their tangle they can only single out their own thirst for money, develops into confidence.

A court decision in one of the districts of Illinois states that their parents are responsible for the illegal online escapades of children . That's right, that's right. Collective responsibility is a more than effective method, as the historical experience of mankind shows.

Napster, at the request of Epic Records , a subsidiary of Sony Music Group , has blocked access to its server to fans of the band Rage Against the Machine . Which surprised the group members a lot.

Radio companies are required to pay additionally for the use of music recordings on the network airwaves, the US Intellectual Property Office has decided . "Your lovin' gives me a thrill but your lovin' don't pay my bills" .

Nerdnet . has published a list of default logins/passwords for hardware from a huge number of manufacturers - logins/passwords that, in fact, should be changed during installation of hardware for security purposes, but often remain default forever

Security Coordinator National Security Council Richard Clarke shared with participants at the SafeNet 2000 conference a progressive idea for creating a new, secure global Network that would exist in parallel with today's. No anonymity, police and other off-line attributes.

An experiment is being conducted in Germany to create an “Internet community” . Moreover, for some reason it is created not on the Internet, but on a separate physical territory: all residents of one village are given computers and provided with Internet access. What this has to do with the Internet community is not entirely clear.

The University of Lausanne conducted a study that used military satellites to find ways for overweight people to lose weight. For example, inform the unfortunate that when going up to the twenty-eighth floor, it would be better not to use the elevator, but to walk. And once these pieces of iron monitored the movement of troops. What a decline.